Could these traps be set up to keep people away from some illegal activity that’s going on in the park? I’ve heard of people using national parks to grow marijuana or to set up meth labs.
Anyone doing something like this would, of course, have a motive to lie about why they set up booby traps.
…but probably wouldn’t post about the booby traps on facebook.
Take a look at their mugshots.
These smug little assholes need to do hard time.
A misdemeanor is less severe than a felony, but a parking offense is generally classified as an “infraction.” The exact categorization varies from state to state, but misdemeanors can typically carry up to a year in jail.
Also, one of the elements of murder is the actual killing of a person.
Are you aware that a murder charge usually requires an actual, you know, death?
Why don’t you look up the Utah penal code and come back when you find that crime listed?
Look, i agree that it’s pretty awful that something of this nature might only draw a misdemeanor charge, but we don’t get to charge people with murder when no-one was actually killed, and we don’t get to make up charges out of whole cloth to fit our sense of outrage.
So suddenly it’s not good enough to T.P. your the principal’s house?
Isn’t attempted murder a felony?
So cinderblock off an overpass is a white collar crime?
Yes, i believe it is.
The issue, though, is whether something like this actually falls within the scope of Utah’s Attempted Murder statute.
I’m of the opinion that, morally, it probably should, but that doesn’t mean that it does. Anyone who has spent any time thinking and reading about legal issues knows that “What i think is right” and “What the law actually allows” are often two rather different things, and the prosecutors don’t get to base their charges on “What i would like” if the law doesn’t actually allow such charges.
I say: Aloysius, old chap, the stunt I am prepared to enact posthaste shall be quite worth the attention should you be free to spare it.
Unless, of course, they were an idiot. People post evidence of illegal activities online all the time, because they’re idiots.
Man,
I sure am glad someone cleared that up.
Well, when someone asks, “Isn’t attempted murder a felony” in a conversation like this, it seems to suggest that he or she believes that the person concerned should be charged with that crime under the current laws.
IOW: Bite me, fuck-knuckle.
True enough. I withdraw my observation. Whether or not they were ‘protecting’ some drug operation, posting about a lethal booby trap on facebook is hard to explain, except by idiocy.
Yabbut that’s in Arizona. THIS happened in Utah.
“What difference does that make?” I hear you cry.
“Shut up.” says I.
And here I thought “asks” meant something more like asking…you know…a fucking question and not “grog thinks thing bad…grog think legal system do something…grog think legal system do whatever”.
…You ain’t from around here, are ya? 
Scarcely a week goes by on this board where the difference between “what the law actually is/does” and “what [a RO devotee] would like for it to be/do” doesn’t need to be painstakingly explicated to one poster or another. The only thing remarkable about this thread is that it’s not Bricker doing the explicating for a change.
Unlike a certain canine trust-fund baby, these guys couldn’t afford any of Acme’s overpriced gizmos, and had to improvise.
They are the 99%, is what I’m saying.
Clever girls…
A slight tangent:
Does anyone else find this sentence strange/funny? I read it and thought for a moment that the prosecutors were afraid that if they brought higher charges someone would get hurt.
Just me? Okay.
Also, kudos to the badass park ranger.